Plug-in Hybrids: Renewable Energy Solution of the Month
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Do you know of any other YTers focusing on just the raw facts about renewable sources of energy like this?
@hawkermustang They are trying to start a factory in the US with billions, form US tax payers, to get these really nice golf carts made here, at subsidy of $230,000 per job. Also, they are subsidizing the cart at 6k to 10k a pop because no one wants to by them. You can buy a really nice car form Ford for half the price and that will buy a lot of gas for the life of the batteries, they last ~ 5 years and cost 10k to 15K to replace.
Solar panels and wind mills are a joke. They make up 0. 7% of the USA’s total energy needs. Total waste of time and money.
@hawkermustang
we’re losing our industrial base because we’ve supported the agenda of the fossil fuel industry, wars for oil, and the casino of financial services.
This started with Ronald Reagan, when he took the solar panels off the white house and devoted America to enriching Exxon.
Whether you believe in AGW or not, clearly the nation that learns to run itself on free energy will dominate the new century.
We could, if we choose, lead the new industrial revolution, but time’s wasting.
@greenman3610 We are losing our industrial base by supporting fake global warming and Obamas Carbon credit bs. How will we compete with china who don’t care about how they pollute?
@hawkermustang
No doubt some battteries are being built in Korea. I’m sorry, you’re wrong about the volt.
google
volt hamtramck
We’ll definitely lose our industrial base if we stay on the 19th century energy path that climate deniers advocate.
You’re complaint about Arkansas is another variation of the “Ah looked out mah winder, an’ it wuz cold, so there cain’t be no clahmut change” argument.
Stay tuned. Next week it will rise into the 60s, and your problem will be historic flooding.
@greenman3610 Wrong! the volt is being built in Mexico and the batteries in Korea!
Oh yeah, this global warming scam is some BS, I’m in Ar. and were under 8 inches of snow right now.
@hawkermustang
actually, a billion dollar plant for advanced batteries is being built about a mile from my house, here in the midwest, USA. The chevy volt is being built in Hamtramck, Michigan.
google
Live video: GM celebrates official launch of Chevrolet Volt at Detroit-Hamtramck Assembly
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watch?v=LsRRAIj2NlI
Climate deniers who wish to keep this country dependent on 19th century technology will insure that this century’s new jobs will indeed go overseas.
Did the experts tell you that the Chevy Volt is being built in Mexico and the batteries are being built in Korea?
Mexico and Korea should thank Obama for creating green jobs for them with our tax dollars.
@greenman3610This is one of your better efforts. I can see you cannot resist using the Heller-Forgo cooling towers (3:03) emitting H2O! Which part of “cooling tower” do you not understand? It is not smoke above them. It is water vapor!
@Richard482 GM did much worse than just take the cars back – they scrapped them and sicc’ed the cops on the protesters and former owners / lessees who would have paid cold hard cash to keep them with no warranty. I believe Toyota allowed some of the electric RAV4s to stay in citizens’ hands after being outed as also trying to scrap them.
There is too much extreme rhetoric in this debate. Claiming we may be headed to “the most prosperous period in human history” is no more responsible than the naysayers that claim that decarbonising the economy will lead to massive poverty. We need constructive dialogue, not pies in the sky/doom and gloom.
@Richard482
the peaking plants are generally gas turbines, which are much easier to fire up and down, sometimes hydroelectric works for this purpose, sometimes it’s nothing more than a giant diesel turbine.
until recently, the cost of natural gas made them impractical as base load units, but that seems to have changed recently.
@greenman3610
One thing I didn’t understand. Perhaps you could explain it to me. You said that powerplants cannot be turned off on a daily basis to economise when demand is low. Ok i get that. But that they rely on a network of smaller power plants during the afternoon when demand is high which are only on for a few hours per day. What’s the difference between these two types of powerplants?
GM Motors didn’t just give up on their electric car program. All of their electric cars were on lease to celebrities like Mel Gibson and Tom Hanks. GM Motors got them all back even though the few people who got to use them loved them.
@greenman3610
If you want an idea for renewable energy solution try new urbanism. Saves more energy than electric car and is far more productive in every human aspect.
The carbon that comes from cars is just a one of the problems they cause. Cars encourage sprawl, bad heath, waste and produce less jobs than mass transit. It also strands the youth, elderly and poor. It divides gene pools of animals. They kill 43,000 people a year and injure many others. The personal auto mobile is the worst invention humans have ever made. This country would be much better if only 10 percent used them regularly and the rest rented occasionally to go were transit can not,
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So electric cars is another short term solution to internal combustion cars. I did not know they could reduce overall emissions and have so many advantages, thanks man.
@greenman3610 Strangely, here’s a point where we agree. Renewable energy, when feasible, is a better way to go. What you present here are good ideas, and ultimately prove themselves some day. Today’s not that day, but tomorrow’s another.
Greenman, I have a suggestion for you regarding greener is better. Do a video on Amsterdam, and Copenhagen regarding their use of bicycles. . A bicycle friendly world, is a better, more healthy, more prosperous, and more livable world. . With less pollution.
The concept of cars, ie a personal vehicle that weighs over 1000 kg (metric, thats what I deal in), carries usually 1 person, and takes up a large portion of a road, both for itself and the space it requires to avoid hitting something, is a concept that is faulty within cities, regardless of how it is powered. Sure, cars are great in the country, but, small electric, human powered hybrids (eg velomobiles), as well as properly designed cities on a people scale offer a better solution, in cities.
@KrunchyJD Good point. Don’t let the “green bling” of shiny new technologies like this detract from the basic fact that many lifestyles are completely incompatible with the Earth’s natural resources. What gives you the right to drive around in a tonne of mined metal that took around 300 GJ (more than many family’s yearly energy budget for everything) to produce (see MacKay’s free book withouthotair for data). And electric vehicles require even more energy to build due to their li-ion batteries.
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This is not leading to prosperity. On the contrary, it leads to poverty, and on the long run to collapse of our civilization. Because it’s forceful central planning by people who don’t have the brain to see new competitive technology. But only old and long obsolete technic, These technics are not suitable to day, and are far to costly, which means they don’t produce capital to investment, on the contrary they eat capital which should be used to investment.